WOW! Imagine pushing the return capsule off your side of the mother ship at 28,860 mi/hr and 4 hours later finding it safely on the ground...in the exact spot you wanted it to land. Mr. Bush, this is how space exploration should be done!
From NASA press release:
"I have been waiting for this day since the early 1980s when Deputy Principal Investigator Dr. Peter Tsou of JPL and I designed a mission to collect comet dust," said Dr. Don Brownlee, Stardust principal investigator from the University of Washington, Seattle. "To see the capsule safely back on its home planet is a thrilling accomplishment."
Use iTunes for locating evil file sharing pirates?
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I don't see a problem if iTunes uses suggestive selling technics to make more money, but, could the list of your music files eventually make its way into the whole anti-piracy-kill-files-sharing fray? Wouldn't it be interesting to The Man to know who has a copy of a "Free Bird" MP3 that was originally ripped by user id "XYZ"?
After years of putting up with the crappy reality shows that my wife likes to watch, this will make the perfect gift for her! Sweet payback for all the nights I've had to endure her [bleeping] "Real World" addiction with its 20-year old mindless babble.
Sony will choose to ignore this violation of their DMCA rights. What's funny is that, assuming M$ offers the removal tool to all Windows users (as opposed to secretly whacking the rootkit with the next SP), then the users will be in violation of the Sony EULA...the same EULA that says you must delete the licensed materials from your computer if you declare bankruptcy or fail to install updates to the rootkit(see Article 9, paragraphs 2 and 3).
...but Mr. Sony says:
6. I have heard that the protection software is really malware/spyware. Could this be true?
Of course not. The protection software simply acts to prevent unlimited copying and ripping from discs featuring this protection solution. It is otherwise inactive. The software does not collect any personal information nor is it designed to be intrusive to your computer system. Also, the protection components are never installed without the consumer first accepting the End User License Agreement.
Surely we all understood what was going to happen when we loaded the rootkit...err, "software". I mean, who wouldn't expect a simple music CD to serve as a conduit for information being passed back to the mothership through a 3rd party Trojan?
...Williams obtained three copyright registrations relating to its DEFENDER game: one covering the computer program, Registration No. TX 654-755, effective date December 11, 1980; the second covering the audiovisual effects displayed during the game's "attract mode",2 Registration No. PA 97-373, effective date March 3, 1981; and the third covering the audiovisual effects displayed during the game's "play mode",3 Registration No. PA 94-718, effective date March 11, 1981. Readily visible copyright notices for the DEFENDER game were placed on the game cabinet, appeared on the CRT screen during the attract mode and at the beginning of the play mode, and were placed on labels which were attached to the outer case of each memory device (ROM). In addition, the Williams program provided that the words "Copyright 1980 - Williams Electronics" in code were to be stored in the memory devices, but were not to be displayed on the CRT at any time....
For you kids out there, Defender was the hardest game in the pizza shop and viciously consumed many unsupecting quarters. See the screen shots for the copyright text.
I understand your concerns. Assumming one could tie my Google account to my real name and my employer could buy this information, then yes, we would have something evil.
In the bigger picture, we live in a world frought with privacy invasions that we have learned to accept...but stick "web-enabled" in front of it and people get all crazy. The photos you drop off at Wal-Mart can be turned over to the Secret Service, no telling what happens with your pay-per-view video data, and your boss can watch your at-work search patterns by analyzing your firewall logs, yet we continue to use these services. I'm not trying to say these things are good, just that we can't go all Chicken Little over every new product offering that comes out. You can always choose not to play (in some cases).
I have to ask myself, "Given the billions of people in the world, who would want to track MY search habits?" I'm all for maintaining the privacy of truly personal and useful stuff, but the fact that Google knows I google my name 10x per week is of no concern to me...just don't tell my friends.
I choose not to vail my face when I'm in public. I think people have become overly sensitive to minor privacy invasion on the web when compared the real privacy invasions we experience as living beings (e.g. you can see me buying groceries on most Sunday nights around 8:00 PM).
Figures 1 through 10 show the landfalling portion of the tracks of major hurricanes that have struck the United States
1901-1999 (there were no major hurricane strikes on the United States in 2000). The reader might note the tendency for the major hurricane
landfalls to cluster in certain areas during certain decades. Another
interesting point is the tendency for this clustering to occur in the latter
half of individual decades in one area and in the first half of individual
decades in another area. During the very active period of the thirties this
clustering is not apparent.
It appears to me that the trends are on 10-year cycles, more or less.
The AJAX acronym was born on Feb. 18, 2005, when it first appeared in a paper titled
"Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications", which was written by Jesse James Garrett, a founder of Web consultancy Adaptive Path LLC. The term has generated a lot of buzz among developers and bloggers so far this year, but it's only the name that's new.
Good thing we have the/. Peanut Gallery to manage the situation and shed unprejudiced light on subjects involving M$.
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...about 281 years (I'm being generous, assuming we have records of every year since Gabriel Fahrenheit invented his handy little contraption). Now lets compare that to the whole of human existence on earth (Homo sapiens at least) of 100,000 years. While yes, it may be the warmest year on record, I don't think we have nearly enough data to say that this year is anything unusual. We've also seen many hurricanes this year, but we can't say there have never been this many before.
For all we know, we may be in the middle of a 14,000-year weather cycle last experienced by "Hobbit Man" or at the beginning of something truly unusual, brought on by SUVs and greenhouse gases.
I don't pretend to know a lot about this stuff, but I wouldn't base my opinion of someone's life on what they did for the last 2 days of it.
Ok, everyone stop clicking on the link for the next 2 minutes. I've got work to do and you guys are all hogging the server. I'll let you know when I'm done.
Feel free to visit this link while you wait for me (I'm a slow reader).
3) You need a photo now. For example, 5 minutes before leaving for the school bus, your kid tells you that she needs a picture of her pet fish for show-n-tell. You crank up your trusty D70 (1.5 seconds), snap a picture (5 seconds), direct-connect the camera to your printer (15 seconds), and spit out an 8x10 of "Fred the Wonder Fish" (90 seconds) with time to spare for the bus.
I find quick printing needs, when quality doesn't matter, to be my primary reason for keeping a photo printer around.
"No sane business operator enters a contract in which one party has the right to disregard its terms at will, but that's what HR-1201 permits."
Sometimes smart people do things they wouldn't normally do so that other people give them their money. People like Ross are creating a chasm between the consumer and the industry that will eventually cause the consumer to seek other forms of entertainment.
So now RIAA's fear is that people will use XM to create MP3s that they can then share with all their friends. I have a box full of cassette tapes in my basement that were made in the 80's by recording radio...yet it wasn't a big deal to the RIAA back then.
I buy an albumn to get the whole 10-15 tracks, not just the one or two singles that get air play. Just like radio, I can't see XM doing anything but generating new sales for the music industry.
My patience is growing thin for the entertainment industry. You can only make so much money with a crappy product. Evolve or die out.
If they were smart, they'd put out a Linux version and call it Office 13. It would eventually be overcome with macro viruses and security flaws, which of course, could be perpetrated in the pop media as problems with anything Linux. This would allow them to safely deal with the Office 12+1 superstition predicament while at the same time securing the future of their beloved O$.
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From NASA press release:
"I have been waiting for this day since the early 1980s when Deputy Principal Investigator Dr. Peter Tsou of JPL and I designed a mission to collect comet dust," said Dr. Don Brownlee, Stardust principal investigator from the University of Washington, Seattle. "To see the capsule safely back on its home planet is a thrilling accomplishment."
NASA has posted a few pictures and press releases.
Congratulations to all involved.
I can't RTFA because SOMEONE /.'d it.
Oooooh, they're so cute they gotta be tasty!!
After years of putting up with the crappy reality shows that my wife likes to watch, this will make the perfect gift for her! Sweet payback for all the nights I've had to endure her [bleeping] "Real World" addiction with its 20-year old mindless babble.
It will be intersting to see if Elliot Spitzer goes after this kind of scum like he did Wall Street.
...It's really just a copy of the Sony rootkit lurking beneath the surface.
You can view the picture here too.
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Days since my last Sony purchase: 602
To your point, a 1916 Tampa Tribune newspaper ad containing a customer review.
Of course not. The protection software simply acts to prevent unlimited copying and ripping from discs featuring this protection solution. It is otherwise inactive. The software does not collect any personal information nor is it designed to be intrusive to your computer system. Also, the protection components are never installed without the consumer first accepting the End User License Agreement.
Surely we all understood what was going to happen when we loaded the rootkit...err, "software". I mean, who wouldn't expect a simple music CD to serve as a conduit for information being passed back to the mothership through a 3rd party Trojan?
(For you literalist, I'm being facetious.)
According to this case:
For you kids out there, Defender was the hardest game in the pizza shop and viciously consumed many unsupecting quarters. See the screen shots for the copyright text.
Ahh, you're right. I'm such a freakin' idiot. I hate myself. Someone please mod my original post down to "pointless existence"
maps.google.com + froggle.google.com = "She's a witch!"
Wal-Mart should look forward to this day...or do they not really have the lowest prices?
In the bigger picture, we live in a world frought with privacy invasions that we have learned to accept...but stick "web-enabled" in front of it and people get all crazy. The photos you drop off at Wal-Mart can be turned over to the Secret Service, no telling what happens with your pay-per-view video data, and your boss can watch your at-work search patterns by analyzing your firewall logs, yet we continue to use these services. I'm not trying to say these things are good, just that we can't go all Chicken Little over every new product offering that comes out. You can always choose not to play (in some cases).
I choose not to vail my face when I'm in public. I think people have become overly sensitive to minor privacy invasion on the web when compared the real privacy invasions we experience as living beings (e.g. you can see me buying groceries on most Sunday nights around 8:00 PM).
I rarely laugh out loud when reading /. You got me with that one.
Good thing we have the /. Peanut Gallery to manage the situation and shed unprejudiced light on subjects involving M$.
Note: This advertisement was paid for by The FOB Foundation and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Lame Operating Systems, a not-of-profit organization devoted to the security of the world's data.
For all we know, we may be in the middle of a 14,000-year weather cycle last experienced by "Hobbit Man" or at the beginning of something truly unusual, brought on by SUVs and greenhouse gases.
I don't pretend to know a lot about this stuff, but I wouldn't base my opinion of someone's life on what they did for the last 2 days of it.
Feel free to visit this link while you wait for me (I'm a slow reader).
I find quick printing needs, when quality doesn't matter, to be my primary reason for keeping a photo printer around.
Sometimes smart people do things they wouldn't normally do so that other people give them their money. People like Ross are creating a chasm between the consumer and the industry that will eventually cause the consumer to seek other forms of entertainment.
I buy an albumn to get the whole 10-15 tracks, not just the one or two singles that get air play. Just like radio, I can't see XM doing anything but generating new sales for the music industry.
My patience is growing thin for the entertainment industry. You can only make so much money with a crappy product. Evolve or die out.
If they were smart, they'd put out a Linux version and call it Office 13. It would eventually be overcome with macro viruses and security flaws, which of course, could be perpetrated in the pop media as problems with anything Linux. This would allow them to safely deal with the Office 12+1 superstition predicament while at the same time securing the future of their beloved O$.